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B. I. BIKE.

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APPLICATION FILED .IAN-21. ISIS. Y

Patented May 30,1916.

THE CuLummA PLANOGRAPH x20., WASHINGTON, o. C.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3U, 1916.

' Application led January 21, 1915. Serial N o. 3,453.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, BERTON I. RIRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bags, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to bags and more particularly to bags such as are used for storing garments and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide a bag of this kind which will be light and inexpensive in its construction; which can be folded into a compact package; which will have a tight, easily operated closure; and which will be provided with means for supporting the contents of the bag independently of the bag so as to relieve the walls of the bag of the strain which is imposed thereon when the contents of the bag are supported by the bag itself.

To this end it is a further object of the invention to provide the open end of the bag with flaps adapted to fold across the opening and coperating to tightly close the same; to so construct the flaps that when not in use they will lie flat and substantially parallel with the side walls of the bag, thereby enabling the bag to be folded into a flat compact bundle.'

A further object of the invention is to provide a hanger which will support the bag itself and will support the contents of the bag independently of the bag, thereby relieving the walls of the bag from all strain which would tend to injure the same and distort the closure for the opening, and enabling the bag to be made of lighter Inaterial which is not only less expensive but renders the bag easier to handle and enables it to be folded into a more compact bundle than where made of heavy material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of the bag with the opening partly extended and showing my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line :c of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows; and Fig. 3 is a transverse, sectional view showing the opening closed.

In these drawings I have illustrated one embodiment of my invention and have shown the same as applied to a bag, the upper portion of which is indicated at 1 and which comprises side walls which, when the bag is empty, extend substantially parallel one with the other and are attached one to the other at their lateral edges and at one end, preferably by overlapping the edges and pasting them together, although the connection may be made in any suitable manner. The edges of the side walls at the other end of the bag are unattached and an opening is thus provided for the insertion and removal of articles. The edges of the side walls adjacent to the opening are reinforced and are provided with coperating flaps ing arranged to fold across the opening and to fold one upon the other to form a tight closure for the opening. In that form of the invention here illustrated I have combined the closure with a reinforcement for the edges of the opening. As here shown I have secured to the side walls of the bag, along the edges of the opening, reinforcing strips 2 and 3, of cardboard or extra heavy tough paper. These strips may Abe secured to the bag in any suitable manner, as by pasting, and, in the present instance, there are two of the strips, one on each side of the opening, and they are provided with overlapping ends to reinforce the ends of the opening. As here shown one of the strips, 2, is of greater length than the bag and its end portions t are bent about the lateral edges of the bag and folded on and pasted to the adjacent ends of the reinforcing strip 3. This reinforcement not only protects the edges of the walls from being torn but tendsto support the edges of the bag when the opening is distended, so as to permit articles to be readily inserted therein. The reinforcing strip 2, which is secured to the rear wall of the bag, as shown in Fig. 1, has a portion projecting above the adjacent edge of the bag for, substantially the full width of the bag, as shown at 5. 'Ihis projecting portion of `the reinforcing strip constitutes one flap of the closure for the bag and is adapted tobe folded across the open end of the bag and down against the front reinforcing vstrip 3, as shown in Fig. 3, the vreinforcing strip 2 being scored along a line adjacent to and substantially parallel with the upper edge of the bagv to facilitate the folding of they flapI forming a closure therefor, these flaps beof said strips and a portion projecting beyond the end of the bag and adapted to be folded across said opening and against the other reinforcing strip, and said other reinforcing strip having a portion projecting beyond that edge thereof which is farthest removed from said opening and adapted to be folded against the projecting portion of the first-mentioned strip when that projecting portion is in its folded position, and clips embracing said flaps across the top of the bag.

2. The combination, with a bag having an opening in one end thereof, of a closure for said opening comprising a flap secured to said bag along one edge of said opening, projecting beyond said edge and adapted to fold across' the opening and against the other edge thereof, and a second flap secured to said bag on a line spaced away from said other edge of said opening and adapted to fold upward against the first-mentioned flap, when the latter is in its folded position, and flexible clips secured to said bag and adapted to fold upward along said second liap, across the end of the bag and down against the opposite side thereof.

3. A bag having an opening at one cd thereof, reinforcing strips secured to said bag along the edges of said opening, one of said strips having a portion projecting beyond the end of the bag and adapted to be folded across said opening and against the other reinforcing strip and said other reinforcing strip having a portion projecting beyond that edge thereof which is farthest removed from said opening and adapted to be folded against the projecting portion of the first-mentioned strip when that projecting portion is in its folded position, and clips secured to said bag 4on one side of said opening and adapted to be bent across said flaps to retain the same in their closed positions.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BERTON I. BIKE.

' Witnesses:

EDWARD L. REED, F. W. SCHAEFER.

@amen of thin patent may be obtalnedfor ve cents each, by addressing the commissioner of Entente. Wathlnton, D. G. 

